Sylvan Hills High School - Bruin Yearbook (Sherwood, AR)

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Office Hums With Activity It's 8 a.m.! The office is humming with teachers and students buzzing around, phones ringing, par- ents waiting for conferences, substitutes waiting for assignments, coffee perking, machines running, and among all this activity three people arc getting ready to start another day. Ms. Linda Johnston, secretary to the principals; Ms. Martha Gresham, registrar; and office secre- tary Ms. Mariam Mack arc at their desks trying to get everything in order. Ms. Johnston has worked here for eight years and does about everything including checking absentees and finding substitute teachers. Regist- rar Ms. Gresham has been at Sylvan Hills for six years but has worked a total ot nine years in the district. One of Ms. Mack's main jobs is compiling and distributing the announcements each day. AU the secretaries nave to deal with a constantly ring- ing phone which usually involves student absen- tees and parents checking students out. HEADACHE TIME - During arena scheduling Ms. Gresham and Ms. Johnston had their hands full receiving and filing schedule cards. ANOTHER CALX. — Ms. Linda Johnston constantly has to deal with all sorts of requests. NEWCOMER - Ms. Mariam Mack just joined the office staff this year and works until noon each day. SHE'S THE REGISTRAR - Students can't enroll or withdraw from school with- out consulting with Ms. Martha Gresham. Ms. Linda Johnston 112 Secretaries

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Happenings . .. Ms. Pat Fisk believes that the most unusual incident in her classes was one day during first semester. “I was telling students about a cheating incident when I was in school and about how a boy did it. The students began talking about teachers they had had who were good at catching cheaters. They mentioned the name of one who was the best at know- ing all their tricks. When they men- tioned his name, I told them that that teacher was the same one I had gone to school with and the one I was talking about. The bell rang and I could hear them laughing about it all the way down the hall.” Ms. Julia Fraser summed up the year by saying, “I still can’t believe that sec- ond period stayed quiet 30 minutes October 15!” And Coach Solomon just commented, “Everybody showed up.” LET'S WIN — Coach Danny Thomas tries to rouse enthusiasm for the Mills game, at a Friday morning pep rally. Barbara Taylor — Special Education; Boh Taylor — Handlx-lLs, A Cappclla Choir, Mixed Choir, Cirls Choir, Cadet Choir; Lloyd Thomas — Exploratory Trades and Industry. Drafting. Carl Whitfield — Analysis, Calculus, For- tran. Cobol; Kathryn Young — English. French; Brenda Zcrmattcn — Accounting, Typing. Focully 111

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Counselors Help Prepare Students A high school counselor's job is much more than helping students select their classes and arranging their schedules at registration. They help prepare seniors for college or vocational schools by giving them information and having people from these schools come and talk to interested students. The counselors also give out the ACT and PSAT tests and help college bound students with their eligibility for schol- arships. In addition to this they also help coun- sel troubled students about personal and social matters. Mr. Robert Burney has been at Sylvan Hills for 10 years and is in charge of taking care of the new college computer which helps stu- dents find out what they’d like to major in by their interests and hobbies. Mrs. Jeanette Hyatt has been here for nine years, and Mrs. Marietta Hurley is just bepn- ning counseling here, but has taught in the dis- trict for 16 years. Before coming to Svlvan Hills, she was a counselor at Oak Crove for 12 years. She says that she likes the excellent advisory staff, the cooperative faculty, but overall I like the students and the contact with them.” RECORD KEEPING - Counselor Robert Bumey goes over some student's files and information as part of his daily job. TEST RESULTS — Counselor Jeanette Hyatt explaias ACT scores to a senior. ANOTHER SCHEDULE CHANGE — Counselor Marietta Hurley examines a stu- dent's schedule. COMPUTERS - One of the duties of the counselor's secretary is programming the computer which gives students information about requirements for jobs. Counselors 113